 | PSN Terms and Conditions Changed – Gamesharing affected |
| Geoff - November 25th, 2009 at 12:45 pm - 153 views - 4 Comments |
One of my favourite things about the PSN (Because yes, there ARE actually things I like about it) is Gamesharing. Slightly dubious – and not exactly endorsed by Sony is a feature that allows you to share PSN downloaded games with up to 4 friends. To be more correct I should says “used to allow you,” as Sony’s new PSN terms and conditions are making a few changes to the way Gamesharing works.
Previously, a single PSN account could be activated on up to 5 PS3’s – but that limit has been reduced to 3. As a result, PSN content can now only be shared amongst three machines, but it gets worse…
According to the new Terms of Service :
“Network Content, can only be accessed by one activated PlayStation®3 system per day and only by the account through which the Network Content was purchased. Network Content cannot be used on two different PlayStation®3 systems within a twenty-four (24) hour period.”
Looking at that wording, it seems like the era of Gamesharing may be coming to an end, at least where multiplayer is concerned – groups of friends can no longer chip in to buy multiplayer PSN games to play together.
Interestingly, this seems to only affect European users at the moment – The new clauses are missing from the US terms of service. The South African Terms of Service page throws up a 404 error, but Google’s cache (From November 19) shows that very same 3 user limit, with a 24 hour period between use on different machines.
Have any of you noticed any changes in Gamesharing? Is everything working just fine, with the new wording just to cover Sony’s ass? Let us know!
Source : HaxNetwork
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November 25, 2009
1:05 pm
I have mine account on 5 different PS3’s.
From what i know this will only have an effect on me when I have deactivate one of those accounts…
I hope the 24 hour limit doesnt stop me from playing the online downloadable games against the people i share with! now that would suck!!
November 25, 2009
1:26 pm
Yeah..it’s a little ambiguous – and I certainly hope that’s not the case.
November 25, 2009
4:44 pm
Apparently it was only a typo:
http://community.eu.playstation.com/playstationeu/board/message?board.id=62&message.id=1663618#M1663618
November 25, 2009
8:14 pm
Yeah appears so. very happy!